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- From: mdouglas@cad067.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Maria Douglas )
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:06:39 GMT
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- Victoria Goff writes:
- +++You know, Jesus was so narrow and hardheaded, wasn't he Maria? He
- +++just didn't respect anybody's beliefs if they didn't line up with
- +++his. You would think he thought he was God...
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- |> Well, that's my $.02. (And, yes, I've *studied* the Bible, and
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- +++Ah, you might have *studied* the bible, but do you *live* it?
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- |> if the New Testament is not taken out of context with the Old Testa-
- |> ment and the Jewish culture of Jesus' time, it's message is VERY
- |> clear. Hmmmmm...culture impacting religious beliefs? AMAZING!)
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- +++You sure you're a Christian? You don't sound like you know Christ.
- +++Besides, all the real Christians I know hate religion as much as
- +++Christ does.
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- +++-V.Goff "...always in trouble"
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- I've replied to Victoria privately regarding the above comments.
- Regarding what specific religious principles our Constitution is
- based upon, and therefore our culture, the Deists did believe
- that the judeo-christian Ten Commandments were good laws upon
- which to base our government, but they did not specifically be-
- lieve in the deity ("Jehovah God") that prescribed them. They
- may have believed in the theory that the deity somehow wound up
- the universe like a clock and just let it run, too (as Bud Hovell
- mentioned. I don't remember, but it makes sense.) The New Age
- movement similarly seems to "take the best and leave the rest,"
- but not always.
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